The R package instaR is authored and maintained by Pablo Barbera and it helps R users to access the Instagram API through R. This package provides a series of functions to access information from Instagram.
We can install the latest instaR package directly from the GitHub repository using the following code and load the package into R using the library function. The package devtools is required in order to install directly from GitHub:
library(devtools)
install_github("pablobarbera/instaR/instaR")
library(instaR)After installing the required package for enabling the access to the Instagram API, we will proceed to make the authentication process from R. In the following code, the variable app_id holds the actual Client ID of your app and the variable app_secret holds the Client Secret. Using the function instaOAuth, we generate the access token that makes it possible to make an authenticated call to the Instagram API. The token can be saved...